Defend or oppose the necessity of actions taken to expand into the new world and Africa between 1300-1789 C.E.

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Interaction between the peoples of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas during 1300-1789 C.E. brought about cultural fusion, trade, commerce and the foundation of the current state of political affairs. Expansion into the New World and Africa created numerous benefits such as ship building and nautical navigation, which drastically improved during this time period. Maps gradually began to include the accurate longitude and latitude of countries and continents as more New Worlds were explored. Technology and inventions in the form of military weaponry, agriculture machinery abounded. Global trade spread not only goods and services, but also cultural perspectives.

Introduction
The spread of religious faiths and cultural elements
First contact between Europeans and American natives
The world of the American natives
The conditions of Indians
The African slaves
The brutality faced by enslaved Africans
Conclusion

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[...] Olaudah Equiano wrote a slave narrative about the conditions on board a slave ship during the 1700s: I would have jumped over the side [of the slave ship] but I could not; and besides, the crew used to watch us very closely who were not chained down to the decks, lest we should leap into the water: and I have seen some of these poor African prisoners severely cut for attempting to do so, and hourly whipped for not eating (183) the stench of the hold was so intolerably loathsome that it was dangerous to remain there for anytime” (184). [...]

[...] He writes that: It is said that the Indians are being worked to death cultivating the fields for their caciques and principals, and enriching these lords their numbers have been diminished by their enslavement for work in the mines and in the personal service of the Spaniards they have been reduced by the thousands by their toil in the gold and silver mines; and on the journey to the mines 80 or 100 leagues away they were loaded with heavy burdens to which they were accustomed (121). [...]

[...] “When it was day the soldiers returned to the fort, having massacred or murdered 80 Indians, and considering they had done a deed of Roman valor, in murdering so many in their sleep; where infants were torn from their mothers' breasts, and hacked to pieces in the presence of the parents, and the pieces thrown into the fire and in the water, and other sucklings, being bound to small boards, were cut, stuck, and pierced, and miserably massacred in a matter to move a heart of stone.” (117) The longstanding traditions, social structure, and politics of the native peoples were disrupted with the invasion of traders and settlers from the West. [...]

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